Disability payments have not been paid into Ulster Bank accounts today. Glich Blamed!

Ive just been on to the Disability Allowance Section of the Dept of Social Protection.
Disability Allowance Payments have not reached Ulster bank Customer Accounts today.
According to the department official with whom i spoke Ulster bank are experiencing problems with the payment from the department which they say is a glitch that are currently trying to rectify.
Just for the record, the Dept official was both professional and extremely courteous, (fair play to him, having had loads of calls related to this).

Ive just been on to the Disability Allowance Section of the Dept of Social Protection.
Disability Allowance Payments have not reached Ulster bank Customer Accounts today.
According to the department official with whom i spoke Ulster bank are experiencing problems with the payment from the department which they say is a glitch that are currently trying to rectify.
Just for the record, the Dept official was both professional and extremely courteous, (fair play to him, having had loads of calls related to this).

Just off the phone from Bank -- their entire computer network and systems have gone down!

Im surprised it's taken this long to fix it. My brother who was a big wig computer engineer for barclays etc., also all of dublin traffic signals, up to recently, said that even three years ago there is NO WAY that it's a hardware problem as systems are mirrored and backed up in multiple ways.
He says t has to be a software problem (unlikely to last this long in his opinion) or a cyber attack.

is this a software or liquidity problem?
Have they taken the money and run?

RBS, Natwest and Ulster Bank, all owned by RBS of course, are not having a great day today. Many thousands of customers are having trouble getting at their cash. A technical problem in the IT systems meant that people's bank balances were not updated over night. So customers trying to get money out of cash machines or use their debit cards, who would have expected wages or other money to be in their accounts this morning, have had their transactions turned down. RBS is working to get this sorted out as 'soon as is humanly possible' they say. It is very much a technical problem, and nothing to do with the safety of the bank.

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